MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Couchbase,
Inc., provider of the most complete NoSQL database, today announced
final results of an independent NoSQL vendor comparison by Thumbtack
Technology, Inc., an industry leader in NoSQL consulting services. The
study found that when measured against typical workloads on some of the
most common use cases, Couchbase consistently outperformed the
competition in both performance and scalability, with remarkably higher
throughput and lower latency on less hardware than other NoSQL solutions.

“Thumbtack works with organizations around the world to build and deploy
scalable solutions. We have implemented almost all the leading NoSQL
vendors – including the three tested in this benchmark”

“More enterprises are choosing Couchbase Server for mission critical
applications, not only because it significantly outperforms MongoDB and
Cassandra, but also because it requires less hardware to do so,” said
Ravi Mayuram, Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering,
Couchbase. “Our outstanding performance is a direct result of our
masterless, auto-sharded shared nothing architecture. Combined with our
memory and network centric data access philosophy, Couchbase Server is
uniquely suited to perform at scale.”

Benchmark results

In the recent benchmark, Couchbase dominated in both performance and
scalability, for read intensive and balanced workloads, demonstrating
significantly higher throughput and lower latency over MongoDB and
DataStax Enterprise. Delivering unparalleled levels of speed during the
read heavy workload, Couchbase peaked at 1.71 million ops/second in
comparison to MongoDB at 227 thousand ops/second and DataStax Enterprise
at 99 thousand ops/second. While operating at this higher level of
throughput, Couchbase also surpassed both vendors in read-write
performance, demonstrating lower latency while using less hardware.

Additional results from the benchmark are below:

Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 7x more than MongoDB

Couchbase Server read-intensive throughput was 17x more than DataStax
Enterprise

“Thumbtack works with organizations around the world to build and deploy
scalable solutions. We have implemented almost all the leading NoSQL
vendors – including the three tested in this benchmark,” said Ben
Engber, CEO of Thumbtack Technologies. “Our intention with this
benchmark is to provide a current set of metrics for database
performance that is easy for others to verify and duplicate. We believe
this study does that quite well, and as a result, we are confident in
our results that Couchbase Server 2.5 outperforms the competition on all
measures.”

About the benchmark

The new benchmark, conducted by Thumbtack Technology, was done with the
goal of comparing several popular NoSQL databases in simple and common
use cases. Thumbtack has led production implementations at client sites
for all versions of the databases tested, and worked closely with each
vendor over several months to ensure optimal configuration for each of
the tests.

Thumbtack Technology ran two classic use case scenarios. The first
emulated a typical application of 95% reads and 5% writes and the second
emulated peak write loads, with 50% reads and 50% writes. Thumbtack
Technology provided the testing parameters to ensure that anyone wanting
to replicate the tests is able to do so. These include:

Couchbase provides the world’s most complete, most scalable and best
performing NoSQL database. Couchbase Server is designed from a simple
yet bold vision: build the first and best, general-purpose NoSQL
database. That goal has resulted in an industry leading solution that
includes a shared nothing architecture, a single node-type, a built-in
caching layer, true auto-sharding and the world’s first NoSQL mobile
offering: Couchbase Mobile, a complete NoSQL mobile solution comprised
of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Lite.
Couchbase Server and all Couchbase Mobile products are open source
projects. Couchbase counts many of the world’s biggest brands as its
customers, including Amadeus, Bally’s, Beats Music, Cisco, Comcast,
Concur, Disney, eBay / PayPal, Neiman Marcus, Orbitz, Rakuten / Viber,
Sky, Tencent and Verizon, as well as hundreds of other household names
worldwide. Couchbase is headquartered in Silicon Valley, and is backed
by leading VC’s including Accel Partners, Adams Street Partners,
Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund and North Bridge Venture Partners. www.couchbase.com